When a woman and her unborn son were killed in the course of her Missouri Department of Transportation job, her family sued for wrongful death but the department argued they're shielded from liability becauseher fetus counts as an employee.
Laws granting rights to unborn children have spread in the decades since the U.S. and Missouri supreme courts allowed Missouri’s definition of life as beginning at conception to stand. Now, a wrongful death lawsuit involving a workplace accident shows how sprawling those laws often intended to curb abortion have become.
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